By Steven Shamrak
July 10, 2005
At the end of G8 summit, Tony Blair made a point of announcing personally -- one day after the attack on London by Islamic terrorists -- the aid package of US$3 billion a year to help the Palestinians.
Is this the most important issue the world is facing now? G8 leaders were not able to agree on saving the world from global warming, stopping world poverty, or resolving the ecological destruction of Africa and South America. But wasting money on a terrorist-run state seems to have come natural to them.
American law prevents the use of taxpayers' money to fund institutions that support terrorism. This formality does not stop USAID from spending millions on helping Palestinian terrorist organisations. This year, USAID has paid out around $7 million to Palestinian Authority universities, where Hamas and Islamic Jihad operate freely. They recruit suicide bombers from among the students, and glorify terror against Israel and the U.S.
Only recently, U.S. president George W. Bush agreed to pay $275 million directly to the Palestinian Authority. Does he really believe this won't go towards bolstering the "so-callled militants'" payrolls?
The money would be better spent on a genuine rendition of the "War on Terror". So far, Western democracies have just pretended that they are conducting this war. The unfortunate success of the London bombings is proof of this ongoing hypocrisy. It is time to stop playing deceitful games. Appeasement of Islamic terrorists does not work!
By purchasing Arab oil, giving foreign aid to terror-suppurting states and organizations, as well as by political inaction, Western countries have been indirectly granting generous financial and political support to Muslim terrorism. This gutlessness has only encouraged an escalation of terror attacks against Israel, the U.S. and Europe.
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